Why Choose XDR for Holistic Detection and Response

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The endpoint has long been a major focal point for attackers targeting enterprise IT environments. Yet increasingly, security bosses are being forced to protect data across the organization, whether it's in the cloud, on IoT devices, in email or on-premises servers. Attackers may jump from one environment to the next in multistage attacks and even hide between the layers. So, it pays to have holistic visibility, in order to detect and respond more effectively.

This is where XDR solutions offer aconvincing alternative to EDR and point solutions. Trend Micro separatesthemselves from the pack by providing mature security capabilities across alllayers, superior threat intelligence and an AI-powered analytical approach thatproduces fewer, higher-fidelity alerts.

XDRsolutions can relieve pressure on security teams

It's no secret that IT security teams today are under extreme pressure. They're faced with an enemy able to tap into a growing range of tools and techniques from the cybercrime underground. Ransomware, social engineering, fileless malware, vulnerability exploits and drive-by downloads are just the tip of the iceberg. There are several hundred thousand new malicious programs or unwanted apps registered every day, according to a new Osterman Research report. It argues that, while endpoint protection must be a key component in corporate security strategy, It can only be one strand complemented with protection in the cloud, on the network and elsewhere.

There's more. Best-of-breedapproaches have saddled organizations with too many disparate tools over theyears, creating extra cost, complexity, management headaches and security gaps.This adds to the workload for overwhelmed security teams.

According to Gartner, Two of the biggestchallenges for all security organizations are hiring and retaining technicallysavvy security operations staff, and building a security operations capabilitythat can confidently configure and maintain a defensive posture as well asprovide a rapid detection and response capacity. Mainstream organizations areoften overwhelmed by the intersectionality of these two problems.

XDR appeals to organizationsstruggling with all of these challenges as well as those unable to gain valuefrom, or who don't have the resources to invest in, SIEM or SOAR solutions. Sowhat does it involve?

3fundamental features of XDR solutions

As reported by Gartner, all XDRsolutions should fundamentally achieve the following:

• Improve protection, detection andresponse
• Enhance overall productivity ofoperational security staff
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)to create an effective detection and response capability

However, the analyst urges IT buyersto think carefully before choosing which provider to invest in. That's because,in some cases, underlying threat intelligence may be underpowered, and vendorshave gaps in their product portfolio which could create dangerous IT blindspots. Efficacy will be a key metric. As Gartner says, You will not only haveto answer the question of does it find things, but also is it actually findingthings that your existing tooling is not.

TrendMicro: a leader in XDR

This is where Trend Micro XDR excels.It has been designed to go beyond the endpoint, collecting and correlating datafrom across the organization, including; email, endpoint, servers, cloudworkloads and networks. With this enhanced context, and the power of TrendMicro's AI algorithms and expert security analytics, the platform is able toidentify threats more easily and contain them more effectively.

Forrester recently recognized TrendMicro as a leader in enterprise detection and response, saying of XDR, TrendMicro has a forward-thinking approach and is an excellent choice fororganizations wanting to centralize reporting and detection with XDR but haveless capacity for proactively performing threat hunting.

According to Gartner, fewer than fivepercent of organizations currently employ XDR. This means there's a huge needto improve enterprise-wide protection. At a time when corporate resources arebeing stretched to the limit, Trend Micro XDR offers global organizations aninvaluable chance to minimize enterprise risk exposure whilst maximizing theproductivity of security teams.

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